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They had asked the ship's doctor anxiously how long a man could do without sleep. The doctor had quoted Napoleon. "If at any time," observed the Second pleasantly, "you would like that cigarette case the barber is selling, you know how to get it." "Thanks, old man," said the Red Un loftily, with his eye on the wall. The Second took a step forward and thought better of it. "Better think about it!"
In this light, his life and labors command our admiration, because he did uphold the right and condemn the wrong, and was sufficiently clear-headed to see the sophistries which concealed the right and upheld the wrong. That was his peculiar excellence. How loftily his majestic name towers above the other statesmen of his troubled age!
"You think I have been behaving badly?" pursued Hardy. "I would rather not say what I think," replied Miss Nugent, loftily. "I have no doubt you meant well, and I should be sorry to hurt your feelings." "Thank you," said Hardy, and sat gloomily gazing about him. For some time neither of them spoke. "Where is Jack now?" inquired the girl, at last. "He is staying with me for a few days," said Hardy.
"Ho, ho! that's you, ain't it," he asked the smith curiously, indicating with a grimy thumb the exact position of that dignitary on the drawing. "Don't," said the latter, loftily "sure! He's gotta have room." "An' there's me. Ho! Ho! Gee, I look swell, don't I? Ho! ho!" The little helper's tushes were showing joyously a smile that extended far about either side of his face.
Sanchia's hands clenched and the resultant impression given forth by her whole demeanour was that upon occasion the little widow might be swept into such passionate rage that she was prone to resort to primal, physical violence. Helen, though her own cheeks burned, smiled loftily and made no answer. From beyond the closed door came Alan's eager voice.
The Eagle Right of Petition, so loftily sacred in the eyes of the Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird. A 'mousing owl' would have seen better at midnoon than to have done it. It is an idiot blue-jay, such as you see fooling about among the shrub oaks and dwarf pitch pines in the winter.
Has not heaven richly blessed them with healthy, sturdy children? These these are their true wealth! And if their hearts had been filled with true, ideal love, then then " Miss Ludvigsen came to a momentary standstill. "What then?" asked a courageous young lady. "Then," continued Miss Ludvigsen, loftily, "then we should certainly have seen a very different lot in life assigned to them."
And now I must go to my supper, and you must take yours home with you." "And I am sure it will be the sweetest fish," he said, "that was ever caught in all these waters. But I beg, before you go, you will promise me one thing." "Promise you!" said she, quite loftily. "Yes," he answered; "tell me that, no matter where you go, you will not leave Bridgetown without letting me know of it?"
'Have I the air of an innkeeper? asked Don Quixote loftily. 'I do not know of what you have the air, answered the man, 'but this I do know, and that is that you are jesting when you call this inn a castle. 'But it is a castle, replied Don Quixote, 'and one of the finest in the whole country! And within are those who carry crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands.
"I will propose it to the empress," said the king eagerly; "and I feel sure that she will agree to do so." Kaunitz bowed loftily. "Then," replied he, "Austria will mediate; but let it be understood that the peace is to be an honorable one for Turkey, and that Russia ceases any further aggression in that quarter."
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